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13 Jul 1629
Caspar Bartholin |
death Caspar Bartholin Died 13 Jul 1629 at age 44 (born 12 Feb 1585). Caspar Berthelsen Bartholin was a Danish physician and theologian (Latin Bartholinus) who wrote one of the most widely read Renaissance manuals of anatomy. He was first to describe the olfactory nerve (associated with the sense of smell) as the first cranial nerve. In 1619, while Professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen, along with others of the medical faculty, he published A Short Instruction on how one should care for oneself during the plague. Bartholin glands were first described by Caspar Bartholin, a Dutch anatomist, in 1677. They are paired glands present in female mammals. He died at age 44. |
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13 Jul 1629
Caspar Bartholin the Elder |
death Caspar Bartholin the Elder Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath, physician and theologian (born 1585) |
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